What is Quantserve.com Loading?

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  beingdigital · Member · Sep 27, 2007 at 2:17 am

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  Thanks Options, but how are they getting access to wp like that?

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  options · Member · Sep 27, 2007 at 2:22 am

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  http://www.quantcast.com/faq.jsp#How_do_you_collect_your_data.3F

  apparently Automattic is one their partners or something, dunno may be even a “Quantified Publisher”

  PS
  btw, have you ever had a chance to read a http://automattic.com/privacy/ — a very interesting reading.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 17, 2007 at 8:59 pm

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  Thanks to a fellow wordpress.com blogger’s informative post I was able to remove and lock out flash cookies from my computer that were being used and could be used in the future to track my internet surfing habits. If anyone else wants to remove flash cookies like quantserv then these instructions will do it for you.

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  options · Member · Oct 18, 2007 at 1:11 am

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  just to clarify a bit:

  that linked post is a good and RightThing, everyone would want to follow an advise in that post. thanks a lot, tt.

  however, information (presumably cookies) that you can see in that Flash player control panel was indeed left by the quantserve flash graphs and charts when you visited the quantserve site proper, it’s not a result of using/browsing wordpress.com’s blogs.

  so, the only of your internet surfing habits, those quantserve flash cookies said can really track, are which of the sites stats *presented on the quantserve* you happened to see most of the time, being there ;-)

  btw, as you know, wordpress.com’s inhouse stats also use flash. just curious what setting you made for this very domain?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 18, 2007 at 1:26 am

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  I’ve taken the liberty of posting this as a comment on my blog . I hope you will agree that it’s a better environment for you to continue this dialog in.